Julio Frenk to Deliver Barmes Lecture:
"Globalization and Health: The Role of Knowledge in an Interdependent World"

What:

The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research and the Fogarty
International Center, both part of the National Institutes of Health, jointly
announce Julio Frenk, M.D., Ph.D., as presenter of the 2009 David E. Barmes Global
Health Lecture. Dr. Frenk, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, will
discuss "Globalization and Health: The Role of Knowledge in an Interdependent
World. "

Who:

Dr. Julio Frenk was the Minister of Health of Mexico from 2000-2006 and a senior fellow in the global health program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He is the recipient of the 2008 Clinton Global Citizen Award for changing "the way practitioners and policy makers across the world think about health."

When:

Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009, 11:30 a.m. EST

Where:

Masur Auditorium, NIH Building 10, Bethesda,
Md.

Background:

The annual lecture series honors the late
David E. Barmes, a long-standing World Health Organization
employee, special expert for international health at NIDCR
and ardent spokesman for global health.

Dr. Frenk is Dean of the Faculty and T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health
and International Development at the Harvard School of Public Health. During
his tenure as the Minister of Health of Mexico, he introduced a program of comprehensive
national health insurance, known as Seguro Popular, which expanded access to
health care for tens of millions of previously uninsured Mexicans. Dr. Frenk
also was founding director-general of the National Institute of Public Health
in Mexico, one of the leading institutions of health education and research in
the developing world. For additional information about the lecture see:

The Barmes Lecture is free and open to the public. The lecture, jointly sponsored
by the NIDCR and Fogarty, also will be videocast at: http://videocast.nih.gov/

Fogarty, the international component of the NIH, addresses global health challenges
through innovative and collaborative research and training programs and supports
and advances the NIH mission through international partnerships. For more information,
visit www.fic.nih.gov.
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research is the nation’s
leading funder of research on oral, dental, and craniofacial health. For more
information, visit the web site at: http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) — The Nation's
Medical Research Agency — includes 27 Institutes and
Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting
and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research,
and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both
common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and
its programs, visit www.nih.gov.